How do you keep pressing on when you get stomped real hard?

Drugoth·9/15/2016, 2:55:22 AM·1 votes·720 views

The last game I played I got stomped so hard that I was supremely depressed and couldn't bring myself to play another game. I just sat there all feeling like total garbage and the next thing I knew I was closing the client.

This isn't a one time thing either, this happens to me all the time. I don't want to call it salt but I just felt so tilted that I felt like I hated the world and that I should have done better. Carried my team somehow. But I just sucked as much as everyone else and kept getting caught out trying to make plays in our favour.

The enemy Taric was a God. He turned so many fights by just doing everything perfectly to save his team. Enemy LeBlanc got fed on our Teemo like it was Thanksgiving dinner or something. The enemy teams map presence and rotation was flawless and made my team look like babies playing chess. These kind of games drive me insane and I just want to put my fist through a wall. What makes this all worse is i got caught level 1 in the river and gave first blood +3 assists. It immediately put the enemy team ahead.

Does anyone else have games like these? Can you relate to my feelings? How do you cheer yourself up and put yourself in the mood for more league? How do you push past the fear of having another game like that and exploding like a thermo-nuke? (on the inside, i don't really vent my rage in any way. I just shove it down and do something else)

Eventually I forget the fear and queue up again days later. And then it happens again...

I want to end this by saying that I'm never toxic in my games if that's what you're thinking happens. I'm not really a toxic person.

#TLDR; League drives me into a depressive state when I get stomped and I feel like exploding, but can't because I am a rather big dude and could potentially destroy things around me that I like a lot. How do you conquer the fear of these stomps?

Edit for spelling.

6 Comments

Mordepool9/15/2016, 5:23:31 AM2 votes

Its just a game. Your 10% of that game and gave it 100%. Your passion drives you to win but you can't win alone

Aerothal9/15/2016, 4:45:23 PM1 votes

Hey man! First of all you have to realize that you are always going to lose about 50% of your games. That's just a fact, unless you are not at your current skill level in which case you'll either win more or lose more. Second, realize and internalize that sometimes you just face a better opponent and will get stomped. In that case make sure to record the game and focus at all times, especially when he outplays you and/or you die, on what you could have done to avoid whatever he did to you. Third, learn to accept the fact that losing lane is ok and that sometimes farming up for lategame works just as well.

After a loss, its best to take a break anyways, just to reset yourself, take a breather, get the tenseness out of yourself and breathe. get a glass of water, take a walk clear your head.

Don't take the game/rank too serious and have fun. If you play to get better rather than to win, you will win more, promise!

Cheers, Aero